August 31, 2016
Goodbye, World Not Ending
“i am the nightbreaker. i shouldn’t go to bed without singing.” ― Sheila Maldonado, “break night song“ Goodbye, summer. Goodbye, multiple showers we’ve taken due to midnight walks in a month-long heat wave, […]
August 24, 2016
Even If Parts of You Go Missing Forever
“Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.” —Lucille Clifton One of my favorite quotes from The Torah is one which has tested me many times: “A righteous […]
August 19, 2016
Orchids We Have Been: On the Transformative Power of Longing
July 27, 2016
It’s All about the Music: A Tribute to Tim Duncan
A few years ago, I scrambled my first boulders at Old Rag Mountain, reportedly one of the most challenging and dangerous hikes. Coming and going, the nearly nine-mile hike itself […]
July 25, 2016
Majestic Waste
Jay Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne (2011) album was a watershed moment in hip hop, specifically, and American culture broadly, though to say this is a bit redundant, […]
July 20, 2016
La Fin du Monde at Bristol Bar
There was a bar called Bristol. On the corner of 4th and Summit, all brick with a couple window walls, a former speakeasy back in the Prohibition days, when the […]
July 1, 2016
Get Back
I injured my back in mid-April—and my recovery, or lack of recovery, has been, at times, painful and demoralizing. So I’ve spent much of the past two months on my […]
June 29, 2016
Burger Night at the Farm
Last Friday, we stopped out at the Bread and Butter Farm in Shelburne for their Burger Night. A long gravel driveway and an army lugging lawn chairs, beach bags, diaper […]
June 28, 2016
A Real Kind of Sublime
We look at alien grace, unfettered by any determined form, and we say: balloon, flower, heart, condom, opera, lampshade, parasol, ballet. Hear how the mouth, so full of longing for […]
June 25, 2016
Memory is Elsewhere
“I want you to tell me a story ‘bout when you were a little boy,” says my four-year-old girl every night. I tell her things I remember, and things I’ve […]
June 21, 2016
The Greatest Decade
The Warriors are not greater than the ’95-’96 Bulls, who still have the best win-loss record of all time when you include the postseason. The Warriors have reached heights that […]
June 19, 2016
We Encounter Each Other So Rarely
My ankles brush the sage and scrub, and I can no longer recall my mother’s hands, and soon my name too, is lost among the humming- birds, among the blur […]